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A group of Dalit women in 2021. Dalit (English: / ˈdælɪt / from Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Dalits were excluded from the ...
In modern literature, many castes under the Scheduled Castes category are sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken" or "dispersed" for the untouchables. [5] [6] The term having been popularised by the Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar during the independence struggle. [5]
Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based oppression and discrimination for centuries. [1][2][3] This literature encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and ...
Dalit Christian. The term Dalit Christian or Christian Dalit is used to describe those who have converted to Christianity from other forms of religion in the Indian subcontinent, and are still categorised as Dalits in Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Sikh societies in South Asia. Hindu Dalits are sometimes referred to as Harijans.
Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in the Indian subcontinent in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes with Latin American liberation theology , which arose two decades earlier, including a self-identity as a people undergoing Exodus . [ 1 ]
Chirag Paswan, actor and politician [7][8] Kalabhavan Mani, actor and singer [9] Pa. Ranjith, director and filmmaker [10] P.K. Rosy, first heroine in Malayalam cinema [11] Tun Tun, actress and comedian of Hindi cinema [12] Neeraj Ghaywan, director [13][14] Nagraj Manjule, director [15] Archana Gautam, Indian actress and winner of Miss Bikini ...
The Dalit History Month collective originally included Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Christina Dhanuja, Maari Zwick-Maitreyi, Sanghapali Aruna, Asha Kowtal, and Manisha Devi. [16][17] Sanghapali Aruna and Thenmozhi Soundararajan came up with the idea during discussions at the Color of Violence conference in Chicago. [18][19] Dalit History Month is ...
Dalit is an ancient designation for a group of indigenous Indian people. Several influential Hindu saints, though, were members of this group. [1][2] Though there has also many historical Vedic period saints, whose descendants are now considered as Dalits. [3] Many of the saints have been classified as Shudra or Avarna, because there was no ...